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Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): How common is this? |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): Is there redundancy that should be able to get the flaps in the right config? |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): If any, what's the real danger here? |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): How common is this? Is there redundancy that should be able to get the flaps in the right config? If any, what's the real danger here? |
Quoting Trijetsonly (Reply 4): As far as I know, the A380 is the only aircraft out there which is not allowed to land with the high lift system completely retracted (no slats and flaps). |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): How common is this? |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): Is there redundancy that should be able to get the flaps in the right config? |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): If any, what's the real danger here? |
Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): as I fly 150k+ miles a year and have yet to have anything like this happen |
Quoting B6JFKH81 (Reply 6): Quoting georgetown (Thread starter): as I fly 150k+ miles a year and have yet to have anything like this happen You are quite lucky. Even when I was with the airline I wouldn't fly nearly as much per year as that, but in my 8 1/2 years of being in the business and flying on my airline along with other ones I experienced flap issues, in-flight engine shut-downs, loss of steering, and a bunch of other minor things. If you fly as much as you do, you are going to get hit with some of the more interesting issues eventually LOL |
Quoting Trijetsonly (Reply 4): As far as I know, the A380 is the only aircraft out there which is not allowed to land with the high lift system completely retracted (no slats and flaps). |
Quoting Bellerophon (Reply 11): I've had three Split Flap landings and one Asymmetric Flap landing on the B747 in my career, a problem I solved by bidding on to an aircraft that didn't have any flaps! |
Quoting Bellerophon (Reply 11): That is why, again as others have said, commercial aircraft generally have protection devices that will halt any further flap movement as soon as any asymmetry is detected. If handled properly, flap asymmetry should not cause any undue problems, but if mis-handled, it can be exceedingly dangerous. |
Quoting larshjort (Reply 12): Another flap problem which is particular to the CRJ-100/200 is flaps not extending due to frozen actuators. Water would enter the actuator if it hadn't been properly sealed and freeze when the aircraft reached cruising altitude, the result being a flaps up landing. It happened a lot, especially in the winter, until a few years where they finally managed to come up with a waterproof flap actuator. |
Quoting cornutt (Reply 10): Is that some limitation of the aircraft, or is it simply that there isn't a runway long enough? Could it land without flaps, say, on the lakebed at Edwards AFB? |
Quoting Bellerophon (Reply 14): But mine did have a tailwheel! |
Quoting Bellerophon (Reply 11): Split Flap landings |
Quoting Bellerophon (Reply 11): Asymmetric Flap landing |
Quoting Bellerophon (Reply 18): |